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Traditional ecological knowledge and practices in Zimbabwe: medicinal ethnobotany and ethnozoology among communities in Chipinge district. 津巴布韦的传统生态知识和做法:奇平奇地区社区的药用民族植物学和民族动物学。
IF 3.7 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00809-w
Justice Muvengwi, Alfred Maroyi
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Ethnobotanical study of wild and semi-wild edible plants in Yeki district, Sheka Zone, Southwest Ethiopia. 埃塞俄比亚西南部Sheka地区Yeki地区野生和半野生食用植物的民族植物学研究。
IF 3.7 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-08-09 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00810-3
Ashebir Awoke, Yared Siyum, Girma Gudesho, Fetku Akmel, Kiros Shiferaw Abate
{"title":"Ethnobotanical study of wild and semi-wild edible plants in Yeki district, Sheka Zone, Southwest Ethiopia.","authors":"Ashebir Awoke, Yared Siyum, Girma Gudesho, Fetku Akmel, Kiros Shiferaw Abate","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00810-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00810-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Wild and semi-wild edible plants (WSWEPs) play a critical role in sustaining rural livelihoods by contributing to food security, nutrition, traditional medicine, and cultural identity. In Yeki District, Sheka Zone, Southwest Ethiopia Region, Ethiopia, where diverse ethnic groups coexist, these plants remain integral to local diets and health practices. However, factors such as agricultural expansion and urbanization threaten their availability, highlighting the need for comprehensive ethnobotanical documentation and sustainable management.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study employed a cross-sectional ethnobotanical survey conducted from November 2023 to August 2024 across five purposively selected kebeles. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, market surveys, and guided field walks involving 175 informants. Plant specimens were collected, identified, and documented following standard taxonomic references. Quantitative analyses, including preference ranking, direct matrix ranking, and statistical tests (t-tests, ANOVA), were applied to assess knowledge variations and threats.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 74 WSWEP species belonging to 34 families were identified, with herbs being the dominant growth form and fruits the most frequently used edible parts. Significant knowledge differences were observed based on gender, literacy, ethnicity, and informant experience. Agricultural expansion and urbanization were identified as the primary threats. Consumption modes varied, with 46% eaten raw and others (54%) prepared by boiling or cooking. Some plants required careful processing due to mild adverse effects reported during consumption.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>WSWEPs in Yeki district are vital for nutrition, health, cultural heritage, and environmental sustainability. Conservation efforts, community education, and policy integration are essential to safeguard these resources. Further research into their nutritional and pharmacological potential could enhance their sustainable use and value.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"54"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12335779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Divine thus good, devilish thus bad? Folk linguistic perceptions about plants and their characteristics in Polish folklore. 神如此好,魔鬼如此坏?波兰民间传说中关于植物及其特征的民间语言认知。
IF 3.7 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00787-z
Olga Kielak
{"title":"Divine thus good, devilish thus bad? Folk linguistic perceptions about plants and their characteristics in Polish folklore.","authors":"Olga Kielak","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00787-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00787-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>According to folklore, some plants are created by divine beings and holy persons, while others appear on earth through demonic intervention. It is commonly believed that plants of divine origin are \"good\" plants, useful to humans, while plants of devilish origin are \"bad\" and not useful.</p><p><strong>Aim of the study: </strong>This article analyses folk beliefs regarding the origins of selected plants, identifies which of them are considered to have a divine origin and which a demonic one, and examines whether the perceived divine or demonic origin of a plant influences its usefulness or harmfulness to humans.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This article first compares folk beliefs regarding the origins of selected plants, identifies their divine and demonic origins, and then evaluates the characteristics of these plants (edible/inedible, desirable/undesirable in cultivation, used in folk medicine, used in rituals, blessed throughout the year, used in apotropaic practices, associated with the devil/used in black magic). The aim is to determine whether there are any correlations between these characteristics and the plants' divine or demonic origins.</p><p><strong>Results and discussion: </strong>The analyses carried out have shown that a given plant's divine or devilish provenance does not determine its usefulness or lack thereof, because in popular folkloristic imagery about plants we can find many characteristics that \"escape\" the sharp division into \"good\" and \"bad\" plants. Plants whose origin in folk imagery is associated with the activity of divine agents are edible plants, desirable to man, commonly used in (annual and family) rituals and in folk medicine, while plants associated with the devil are plants that are often poisonous, harmful, dangerous, stinging and prickly, undesirable as crops and classified as weeds, representing a dwelling place for forces hostile to man on the one hand, yet used in an apotropaic capacity on the other. At the same time, \"devilish\" plants were sometimes eaten as famine food, blessed and used in folk medicine, while \"divine\" plants, treated as weeds, were considered the abode of demons and used in black magic.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study shows that the divine or devilish provenance of plants can be interpreted as information about the source of a plant's power-either divine or devilish. The article provides new insights for research on the perception of plants in Polish folk culture and also helps to promote Polish ethnolinguistic studies within the international academic discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12291273/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144718924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Plural and commoning? Forecasting four scenarios for ethnobiology and ethnomedicine by 2035. 复数和共有?预测到2035年民族生物学和民族医学的四种情况。
IF 3.7 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00804-1
Andrea Pieroni, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman
{"title":"Plural and commoning? Forecasting four scenarios for ethnobiology and ethnomedicine by 2035.","authors":"Andrea Pieroni, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00804-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00804-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The accelerating erosion of traditional and local ecological and medical knowledge (LEK) systems is increasingly evident in the Global North and across many less marginalised regions of the Global South. This decline is primarily driven by overarching forces, i.e. globalisation, internalised coloniality created worldwide and over decades by non-rural leading classes, and, most remarkably, by a profound detachment from continuous, embodied interactions with nature. At the same time, sustainability-driven agendas and the expanding role of AI in science and daily life intertwine challenges, opportunities, and a few risks for ethnobiology and ethnomedicine in the coming decade. This editorial proposes four plausible scenarios for the evolution of these disciplines, navigating the intricate cobwebs of LEK loss, resilience, adaptation, and, most importantly, trying to open new horizons in the current problematic times. These scenarios are intended to inspire further theoretical and primarily further empirical engagement in the field, alongside a call to urgently foster commoning practices and innovative educational platforms for (re)experiencing LEK.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"46"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12291476/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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From forgotten to frontier: vindicating Latin America's indigenous biotechnology. 从被遗忘到前沿:为拉丁美洲本土生物技术辩护。
IF 2.9 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00808-x
Francisca Villanueva-Flores, Igor Garcia-Atutxa
{"title":"From forgotten to frontier: vindicating Latin America's indigenous biotechnology.","authors":"Francisca Villanueva-Flores, Igor Garcia-Atutxa","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00808-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00808-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study provides a critical reassessment of indigenous Latin American biotechnologies, uniquely integrating ethnographic, historical, and biochemical analyses to reveal their scientific sophistication and contemporary potential. It examines ancestral practices historically overlooked or marginalized, such as microbial fermentation in traditional beverages (masato, pozol, and pulque), medicinal and nutritional uses of plant mucilages, and natural encapsulation methods using clays and plant-derived polymers. We demonstrate that these indigenous biotechnological systems represent more than ethnographic curiosities; they are early examples of empirical technologies anticipating fundamental principles now central to probiotics, encapsulation pharmacology, and sustainable agriculture. By spotlighting previously under-documented practices and emphasizing their deep cultural and ecological integration, this review fosters a more inclusive understanding of scientific knowledge. It underscores both the ethical and epistemological imperative to recognize and incorporate indigenous innovations into contemporary scientific frameworks. This novel perspective not only recovers and revalues historically marginalized knowledge but also promotes intercultural collaboration, ultimately strengthening sustainability and modern biotechnological innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12288233/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144700194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cultural significance and conservation challenges of the hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) and other vulture species in northeastern Benin. 贝宁东北部连帽秃鹫(Necrosyrtes monachus)和其他秃鹫物种的文化意义和保护挑战。
IF 2.9 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00806-z
Fidèle Ezéchiel Koffi Hounnouvi, Jemima Lydie Obandza-Ayessa, Stanislas Mahussi Gandaho, Lindy Jane Thompson
{"title":"Cultural significance and conservation challenges of the hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) and other vulture species in northeastern Benin.","authors":"Fidèle Ezéchiel Koffi Hounnouvi, Jemima Lydie Obandza-Ayessa, Stanislas Mahussi Gandaho, Lindy Jane Thompson","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00806-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00806-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>West Africa remains the stronghold for Critically Endangered hooded vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus) and other species of vulture, but these populations are declining. Since anthropogenic threats pose the greatest risks to vultures, it is crucial to understand people's perceptions of these birds, and their ethno-cultural significance, in areas surrounding national parks to inform conservation policy through an understanding of cultural values and practices.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used semi-structured interviews to collect data from 450 respondents in nine localities near three protected areas in northeastern Benin: Sota Forest, Trois Rivières Forest, and Alibori Supérieur Forest.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings showed that 80% (n = 360) of participants had encountered vultures in the past three years, with the hooded vulture being the most frequently observed vulture species (98% of sightings). We found significant gender-based differences in people's awareness and perceptions of vultures, with men demonstrating greater awareness and more positive perceptions of vultures' roles in carcass disposal and locating missing livestock. Overall, 60% (n = 270) of respondents associated vultures with superstition and witchcraft. Most respondents (70%, n = 315) reported using vulture brains and bones for spiritual and medicinal purposes. Intentional poisoning was the most frequently reported cause of vulture population declines (70%, n = 315). Conservation measures suggested by survey respondents included the protection and restoration of critical nesting habitats (86%, n = 386, raising awareness about threats to vultures (84%, n = 378), equipping ecoguards to safeguard and monitor vulture nests (65%, n = 344), breeding vultures in captivity (60%, n = 270), and enforcing strict penalties for illegal vulture hunting (55%, n = 247). Younger adults (aged 18-30) showed significantly greater support for conservation efforts than older adults (aged > 30).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There is an urgent need for a multidimensional approach to vulture conservation in Benin. This approach should integrate awareness campaigns, population monitoring, better enforcement of environmental legislation, and improved habitat conservation to reverse the declines of these critical species.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12281755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144683534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology. 对欧洲民族生物学未来的思考。
IF 2.9 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00803-2
Victoria Reyes-García, Doyle McKey
{"title":"Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology.","authors":"Victoria Reyes-García, Doyle McKey","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00803-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00803-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, ethnobiology has undergone significant transformation. A renewed research framework has emerged that prioritizes an ethics of care-one that emphasizes relationships, interdependence, and responsibility towards both human and non-human others throughout all stages of research. This paradigm shift, led largely by Indigenous scholars and researchers from the Global South, invites European ethnobiologists to critically reflect on how they can engage with, contribute to, and learn from these evolving approaches in light of pressing environmental and social challenges. In this Perspective, we explore the future of European ethnobiology in two main ways. First, we reflect on the specificities of a European lens within global ethnobiology, considering how European ethnobiologists might participate more meaningfully in transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogues. Second, drawing on core principles of the emerging global paradigm, we outline five key avenues for future development: (1) deepening commitments to an ethics of care; (2) responding more directly to contemporary challenges; (3) expanding research contexts; (4) reimagining methodological approaches; and (5) enhancing the societal relevance and applied impact of European ethnobiologists, both within and beyond Europe. We highlight current examples of European ethnobiologists already advancing these directions and underscore the field's dynamic evolution. We conclude by identifying critical challenges faced by European ethnobiologists, including the need to engage with rapidly evolving digital technologies and to navigate institutional and epistemic barriers that hinder the co-creation of knowledge across diverse worldviews.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12281988/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144683535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Who are leeches? Exploring malleability in human-leech relations through ethnographies from Dagestan and Turkey. 谁是水蛭?通过达吉斯坦和土耳其的民族志探索人类与水蛭关系的可塑性。
IF 2.9 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00801-4
Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska
{"title":"Who are leeches? Exploring malleability in human-leech relations through ethnographies from Dagestan and Turkey.","authors":"Iwona Kaliszewska, Iwa Kołodziejska","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00801-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00801-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper introduces the concept of \"malleability\" as a lens for understanding human interactions with writhing animals, using leech-human relations as a case study. Our research is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Dagestani healers in Dagestan and Turkey, 2019-2024. We argue that the malleability of leeches influences leeches' capacity for reversibility and shapes human-leech communication through their physical transformations and social roles. Through their flexible bodies, leeches enable nuanced, multisensory exchanges, influencing how humans interpret their actions-whether as cooperative, resistant, or purposeful behaviour. Malleability also mediates human sensory and emotional responses, evoking reactions ranging from disgust to admiration. Our findings reveal that leeches occupy a spectrum of roles in human perception and practice, serving as near-companions or ethical subjects, despite the lack of bioethical protections for their use in research, and as commodities or tools in medical contexts. Their physical and semantic malleability enables this fluid reversibility in human perceptions and practices. Methodologically, we advocate for \"immersive duo-ethnography\", which incorporates the researchers' bodily experiences as tools for examining non-verbal interactions between writhing animals and humans. This approach reveals significant entanglements at the sensory and cognitive levels, avoiding reliance on oversimplified metaphors about molecular or chemical processes when precise tracking of such mechanisms is unfeasible. By focusing on embodied relationships, our work highlights the complex interplay of physicality and meaning in human-other taxa interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12273386/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144660876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diachronic changes in local food heritage: the ethnobiology of wild foods in central Tuscany. 当地食物遗产的历时变化:托斯卡纳中部野生食物的民族生物学。
IF 2.9 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00797-x
Mousaab Alrhmoun, Valter Guiggi, Syed Waseem Gillani, Muhammad Manzoor, Naji Sulaiman, Andrea Pieroni
{"title":"Diachronic changes in local food heritage: the ethnobiology of wild foods in central Tuscany.","authors":"Mousaab Alrhmoun, Valter Guiggi, Syed Waseem Gillani, Muhammad Manzoor, Naji Sulaiman, Andrea Pieroni","doi":"10.1186/s13002-025-00797-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13002-025-00797-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Ethnobiological and gastronomic knowledge of wild foods has long-shaped rural traditions in Italy. In Valdera, Central Tuscany, foraging has been especially important among older generations. This study explores shifts in wild food knowledge and practices over two decades, comparing data collected in 2024 with findings from a 2004 study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study was conducted in Valdera, Central Tuscany, through structured interviews with local residents. Using the same methodological framework as a 2004 survey, participants were asked about wild food plants, mushrooms, and wild animals they recognized, used, and how they incorporated them into traditional dishes. This approach enabled a diachronic comparison of taxa diversity, plant families, and culinary applications. Special attention was given to how social and ecological dynamics, such as aging populations, urbanization, and changing educational backgrounds, influenced the retention or erosion of local traditional knowledge over the past two decades.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 86 folk taxa of wild plants were documented. The findings reveal a decline in the number of recorded taxa, from 59 folk taxa and 28 botanical families in 2004 to 57 folk taxa and 26 families in 2024. Despite the samples including a similar number of informants, the decrease in used folk taxa is significant, with several species absent in 2024, including notable wild greens taxa such as Capsella, Coleostephus, Clematis, Daucus, Epilobium, Helosciadium, Lactuca, Muscari, Rubus, Scabiosa, Potentilla, and Viola spp., as well as a few wild seasoning plants such as Allium roseum, Ammi, Juniperus, and Thymus spp. and wild snack species (Gladiolus, Sulla, Oxalis, Lamium spp.). Shifts in plant family diversity and culinary applications were observed, with a decline in the use of wild leafy plants, wild seasoning plants, and wild plant snacks, possibly associated with a reduced role of women in foraging wild greens and less exposure to nature, i.e., fewer activities done into natural environments such as shepherding and/or collection of wild snacks by children and teenagers. A similar trend was observed in mushroom and animal foraging and hunting, where the interviewees could recall details about 24 taxa of food mushrooms and 62 taxa of wild animals, as well as their culinary transformations, which were often related to the past and their younger lives. The analysis revealed that the age group affects knowledge about local wild plants, mushrooms, and animals. While higher education was linked to better systematization of botanical knowledge, individuals with an agricultural background showed significantly greater practical familiarity with plant uses.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings emphasize how traditional plant knowledge is increasingly threatened by social and ecological changes, underscoring the importance of developing conservation strategi","PeriodicalId":49162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine","volume":"21 1","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12261750/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144643978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Medicinal plants traded in Hakka communities of southeastern Guangxi, China. 广西东南部客家社区的药用植物交易。
IF 2.9 2区 医学
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-025-00796-y
Yongqing Liufu, Yaozhang Xie, Min Shao, Qiongyao Fu, Zhongxin Duan, Dipak Khadka, Binsheng Luo
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